TEAM DANN AUGUSTYNLOIS BUITANO

ARDEN DOUGANKRISTEN ELLIS

PATRICIA POOLE-

SHIRRIEL

Taking a Seat at the TableHow to Convey Your Unique Talent at Meetings

January 15th, 2015Learning Circles for Women

Leaders Department of Energy

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Challenges to women’s effectiveness at meetings

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Situational Awareness and Pre-Planning

Understand your organization’s culture Know the real power hierarchy Master the “pre-meeting” What (more) am I trying to accomplish?

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Creating and Executing Your Plan

Know your audiencePrepare your Elevator

SpeechDo your homework

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At the Meeting

Where to sitListen activelyBody languageCommunicate

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Mistakes to Avoid

MeanderingNot answering the

question you are asked

Being the last to speak

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Mistakes to Avoid

Doing the “office housework”

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Effecting Change

Create access opportunities and build connections

Discourage pointless perfection and stop negative self-talk

Exercise good judgment

Get out of your comfort zone

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Happy New Year! Set Goals and Effect Change

Identify two or three specific, realistic areas for achievement

Build upon our strengths, work on a weakness

Write your goals down

Share with others

Create an actionable plan

Regularly assess progress

Celebrate achievements!

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Sources

“Play Like a Man, Win Like a Woman”, by Gail Evans

“Women, Find Your Voice”, Harvard Business Review June 2014

“Nice Girls Don’t Get the Corner Office” by Lois Frankel

“The Loudest Duck” by Laura Liswood

“The Confidence Code: The Science and Art of Self-Assurance --- What Women Should Know” by Katty Kay & Claire Shipman

“A Portable Mentor” by Kendall Steward, MD

“Finding, and Owning, Their Voice”, New York Times Business Section, Sunday Nov 16, 2014

“Taking Notes Isn’t ‘Women’s Work’: What To Do When You’re the Default Admin”, FORBES 10/18/2013

“Sticking women with the office housework”, Washington Post, April 16, 2014